Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 725, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1895 Page: 2 of 8
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Interesting Cullings on Various Subjects
Taken from the Daily Press.
All Democrats.
There was a funeral in St. Albans,
Among the riders there are rough
riders, pad riders and bareback riders,
[From the St. Louis Chronicle.)
One of the most conspicuous figures in the
Stageland of America today is John W.
Norton. Born in the Seventh ward of New
The public utterances of the young
emperor of Germany are a continuing
argument in favor of republican gov-
ernment.
LED MARY ANDERSON
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sitting down for a stretch of five minutes,
comes the circus man’s rallying cry of the pins screwed my legs into a knot when
“Hey,Rube!” which is always sounded ,
in times when a fight with outsiders it struck me that the pains were less trou-
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Horses suffer severely, and
die, from the attacks of.
The Galveston bagging factory is to
resume soon, needed repairs having
been completed.
In the cuts on the rairoad, in Pre-
sidio county, the snow was two and
three feet deep.
Mr. Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis
brewer, and party have been “taking
in” Texas.
Stock are dying rapidly in Harris
county, on account of the recent cold
weather.
Old Aunt Mary Meeks, colored, at
Brenham, is sald to be over 100 years
old.
the other night, in an
A nephew of the new French presi-
dent is a citizen of Georgia, residing
at Augusta. It is not often that Kan-
sas gets scooped in this humiliating
fashion.
the other night, may end fatally. A
lady guest of the Lamar house, while altercation, John Beeson seriously cut
vasmen and other laborers arc “razor-
backs,” while a man who drinks to
vice, destroying the character, health
and usefulness of thousands of young
men and boys. It is the duty of every
state legislature to pass stringent laws
making it a penal offense to sell them
to anyone under eighteen years of
age and providing that a high license
shall be paid for the privilege of sell-
ing to those over eighteen.
A SKETCH OF THE MAN WHO
should say that the congressman who
does not imagine he has the only sure
solution of the financial problem would
break the record of the fat woman or
the zebra without stripes.
kid top and got turned for ten cases.”
The rapid spread of electric rail-
roads puts a new phas ■ on the grade-
crossing question. No one, we pre-
sume, doubts that if steam railroads
then she has been under the care of
two physicians, and her condition is
considered critical.
Temple was the scene of a hasty
it very disagreeable.
A great many hogs are dying, at
At Llano
side show and was
seriously hurt. The snow storm made
ter. He was starred with Lawrence Bar-
rett early in the 70s, and alternated the
leading roles with Charles Thorne at the
Variety theater in New Orleans Early in
the Centennial year, in Louisville, Norton
met our Mary Anderson, then a fair young
girl who aspired for stage fame, took her
under his guidance and, as everybody
knows, led her to fame. Mr. Norton is now
who lives one mile from Georgetown,
caught fire from an open stove re-
beetles, flies and other small
the town council.
During a recent fire at Garrison,
Nacogdoches county, thirteen houses
were destroyed.
cilly the time to deal with it, and
ouEhit to be settled in every state.
The town cow shall no longer
No fewer than 6,136 people are
engaged in making laws in this coun-
try at the present time. No wonder
the broth is spoiled now and then.
A Springfield legislator wants to
pass a law providing that every school-
text book must bear on its first cover
••a picture of the United States flag in
colors, each picture to be not less than
four inches in size.” In the case of a
three-inch book this law would occa-
sion perplexing complications.
through the door. The bullet struck
a button on his overcoat that changed
its course and saved his life.
' A practical joke, played at Denison
A rabbit drive, recently, by four-
teen boys, near Paris, resulted in the
Since ' killing of over 600.
If the lady who sits in front of you
at the theater wears a high hat lean
forward and politely request her to re-
move it. If her hair has been combed
or she doesn’t wear a wig or has no
bald spot on top of her head for the
gods in the gallery to throw paper
wads at she will promptly comply
with the request.
the jury.
Recently, while out hunting, near
Forney, Kaufman county, Charles
Taylor dropped his gun. and it was
discharged, killing him instantly.
The back part of his head was shot
off, scattering his brains on the
bushes.
John Cole, near Floyd, Hunt coun-
A BRIGHT STAR.
cry of “Hey” and the word “Rube”
is imminent. , ------- ----- , . . -
The cry of “Hov Rube’” has been almost unconsciously to have faith in the
Thecryo Hey Kube: nas Men Pink Piils. I improved so rapidly that I
in use among circus men for half could rise after sitting at my desk for an
a century or more, and in the old days hour and the twinges of rheumatism that
it was often followed by bloodshed and accompanied my rising were so mild that I
. 1 vm w. scarcely noticed them. During the past
even loss of life. . rights between No weeks we have had much rainy
circus men and outsiders arecompara- weather in St. Louis. But the dampness
tively rare to-dav, however, and seri- has not had the slightest effect in bringing
2 excent in back the rheumatism, which I consider a
ous trouble seldom 0 curs, except in smcient and reliable test of the emicacy of
the sparsely settled regions of the Pink Pills. I may alo say that the Pink
South and West. Pills have acted a’s a tonic on my stomach,
,, . .i.n, o cipcus a>-o which I thought was well nigh destroyed
The musicians with a cireus are by the thousand and one alleged remedies
known as “wind-jammers, the can- j consumed in the past five years.”
Day. a livery stable man, went to the
home of a Mr. Croker, a farmer re-
siding ou Mustang creek, to see him
on business concerning a law suit
tofi him at the
i,then immediate-
The Mongoose.
excess is either a -lusher” or a “booz- Some time ago the mongoose was
er.” These last two expressions are introduced into the island of Jamaica
not confined to circus men, but have to destroy the rats, which were doing
been used largely and more commonly much damage to sugar cane. But
bv them than by any other class. The the Kingston papers say its activity
distance from one town to another is did not stop there. It destroyed
always known as a “jump,” and snakes, toads, insectivorous birds and
traveling is “jumping.” A circus that other enemies of the insect race, and
travels overland is known as “a red as a result there has been a great in-
wagon show” in contradistinction to a crease in the number of ticks, grass
show that travels by rail. lice.
The showground is always called pests,
the “lot,” and the dining tent, where sometimes
most of the circus men get their ticks, which get into their ears. nos-
meals, is the “camp.” Horses are trils and throat. As the mongo29
always “stock,” and the horse tents finds the rats, snakes, toads and era s
are the “stock tops.” Then there are disappearing, it attacks sitting fowls
scores of technical terms describing and carries off their eggs, and kills
the work of the different performers, young pigs, lambs, calves, pup.,
which, while hardly to be classed as kittens, poultry and game birds, de.
slang in themselves, nevertheless add stroys fruits at I vegetables and is
to the picturesqueness of the circus suspected of sucking sugarcane; it
folks’vocabulary. This, among aero- also eats meat and salt provisions and
bats there is the “understander” the catches fish.________________
were now being introduced they would
becompelled to cross highways either
over or beneath the surface. That is
the \ teaching of common sense and
the requirement of common safe-
ty. /It is too late to deal with this
suiyject in a radical way; but it is not
to/ late to deal with the question
wether electric roads shall cross
stHam roads at grade. Now is pr
proving a success. The Gabardine.
Longview wants a steam laundr} The gabardine, so often mentioned
and waterworks. , by Shakespeare, was a cloak for rainy
Coleman now has a postmistress, , weather. In several countries the
Julia C. Polk. Jewish people were compelled by law
Think of it—five inches of snow at to wear gabardines as aAdistinctive
Brownsville. I article of dress. M
York city forty-six years ago, the friends
of his youth were Thomas W. Keene and
Frank Chanfrau. We find Keeue a star a}
the age of 25 and Norton iu the flower of
early manhood, the leading man for Edwin
Booth at the famous Winter Garden Thea-
There are no ‘-cuss words” in the
Japanese language, and the Chinese1
have exhausted all that are in theirs,
so that the atmosphere of the two
countries is mild and balmy.
Some men wonder how the world
managed to wag before they were
born, and how it can get along after
they are dead, when at the same time
their most intimate friends couldn t
tell the day of their birth, and when
they pass away perhaps there won’t be
to exceed five lines in the papers
about it.
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A VACANCY occurring the other day
in a fl,800 a year postoffice in a Mas-
sachusetts town, only two applicants
applied, each by letter, intimating
that he would accept it if nobody else
would. What do the aspiring people
of that town want, anyhow? Will
trouble, has deposited the check
<1500 with the district court, to
disposed of as it may direct.
Pennsylvania’s new governor has
advanced ideas on the subject of pub-
lic education. In his inaugural ad-
dress Governor Hastings said he hoped
to see the time when every boy and
girl in the state will have a chance
••to obtain a thorough preparation for
any calling or profession, as free
from cost as tuition in the primary
schools.” Industrial education in
various forms is making rapid pro-
gress in the Eastern states.
Benchley, Robertson county. Some
think the trouble is cholera, while
others believe it is caused from eat-
ing cotton seed.
A strange man was found dead, re-
cently, near Briar, in Wise county.
His horse was hitched by the side of
the road. There were no indications
of foul play.
Thomas Gibson, who was sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary, from
Limestone county, has been pardoned
by Gov. Culberson, and is now at
home.
The Waters-Pierce Oil company’s
building at Dallas the other night
and about 500,000 gallons of oil were
destroyed by fire.
Measles are prevalent at Overton
and surrounding country, all the
schools being suspended.
The loss of stock from cold this
winter in Crosby county does not
amount to much so far.
the proprietor of the Grand Opera House in
St. Louis, the Du Quesne Theater, Pitts-
j burg, and one of the stockholders in the
The men who sell peanuts, red lem- ! AroneiarnterntrneazaytnSoneany hobbled
onade, palm leaf fans, animal and into his New York office on Broadway and
song books and concert tickets are encountered his business manager, George
known under the general term of McManus, who had also been a rheumatio
tv was ninned under a falling tree known under ,t e.gn‛ , / ■ sufferer for two years. Norton wassur-
tewas pinned under a Tatnins tree, ..butchers,” while that class of circus prised that McManus had discarded his
recently, and laid there some hours followers whose methods are outside of cane. Whocured you!” he asked. "I cured
before he was released. His shoulder the pale of the law such as pickpock- myself,” replied McManus, ‘‘with Dr. Wiil-
was dislocated and body badly ets, gamblers and ’short-change men, iam winkdlr"agea by Mr MeManus
bruised. are either “crooks” or “grafters.” To cure, and as a last resort tried the Pink
The other evening while C. H. get a person’s money without giving Pills myself,” said Mr. Norton to a Chron-
O’Roark was cutting down a tree in them any equivalent is
the woods, near DeKalb, Bowie coun- them. A countryman is either a during the summer of 1893 I was on my
tv. the tree fell on him and killed “Rube” (Reuben) or a “Jasper.” back at the Mullanphy hospital, in this
........ Thus if a countryman went into a ’ city, four weeks. I was put on the old SYS-
-- - - ... tem of dieting, with a view to clearing those
acidulous properties in my blood that medi-
unclo, o -u-uo ....... •-u— —j. -— ! cal theorsts say is the cause of my rheu-
Rube went against the grafter in the matism. I left the hospital feeling stronger,
■■ but the first damp weather brought with it
those excruciating pains in the legs and
back. It was the same old trouble After
The clothes of Mrs. Frank Leady. SLANG OF THE CIRCUS MAN.
To be just, the governments of
states will have to set aside a fund of
millions to procure expert testimony
as to the sanity or insanity of pauper
murderers. The law, to be law,
should be just to all. The law that
allows a millionaire to prove paresis
should provide expert testimony both
pro and con for the impecunious ac-
cused. What are we drifting to?
- __ But tne Traveling Showman,
cently. She ran to a barrol of water n -1. .. ,
• .0/ j . . j .The circus folk not only have a,
inerorozardstanly srs -lang of n own, but as
elothing had burned OT Her long 23 “' thk a gargon wEieh
miss""sEonamnot li. ° ’ ’ *“ —-I —w
The navigation of the Guadalupe American. They are in a line of
is not an idle dream, impossile or im- business to catch every cant phrase
probale of realization. A wealthy cit going, and any new word which is
izen of Victoria, has made a proposi only a local invention. To a circus
tion to remove the rafts and open the man the manager or the head of any
river and put on a boat drawing three enterprise is always “the main guy.”
feet of water, for <30,000. while those in subordinate positions
A peculiar complication has
arisen out of the death of Fireman
John Hano, who departed this life at
Denison, about two months ago.
Hann carried a policy with the Broth-
erhoood of Locomotive Firemen, to
which his widow in due time laid
claim. Now comes an Iowa lady, with
an injuction restraining the brother-
hood from paying the money to Mrs.
Hann. setting up the claim that she
was engaged to be married to John
Hann, at a date prior to his marriage
with the present Mrs. Hann. The
brotherhood,in order to get rid of tbe
was not heeded, and they commenced
to pelt him. In response he turned
his gun loose into the crowd, firing
three or four shots. O’Donnell re-
ceived a slight flesh wound in the
side. The police could not learn the
name of the party who did the shoot-
ing.
An injunction suit has been filed in
he Forty-eigth district court, which
u the outcome of the prohibition agi-
tation in Hood county. The suit is
filed by H. J. Kerre& Son, and Aston
& Landers, all of Grandbury, against
1 G. W. Riddle, county judge, and J. L.
G. Long, W. H. Martin, T. B. Walsh
and J. P. Snider, county commission-
ers of Hood county, to have them en-
joined from ordering an election in
that county on the prohibition ques-
tion.
C. L. Vogel, a retail dry goods and
grocery merchant, of Madisonville,
nas very mysteriously disappeared.
He went to Houston and Galveston,
early in January to purchase a new
stock of goods. He made his pur-
chases, and the goods have already
arrived, but nothing has been heard
of him tor two weeks. His wife be-
lieves he is dead, and it is understood
she is taking steps to administer upon
the estate.
At Garrison, Nacogdoches county,
recently. Ed M. Weatherby went
home and attempted to play “tramp”
by knocking on his door and calling
in a disguised tone of voice for some-
thing to eat. His wife became fright-
ened, seized a pistol and discharged it
At Galveston the other day Jake
O’Donnell was shot in the left side.
He was one of a party of snow bailers,
when one of the few who doesn’t
like to play snow ball came
along. He gave them warning, which
The liquor men of Memphis who
. are delinquent in their taxes through
and among the funmakers there are political favoritism seem to have won
“patter” or talking clowns, singing the day. Some time ago a movement
clowns and knockabouts. A down was made to collect from them the
used to be called a "cackler" in the delinquent licenses for the years 1890,
English circuses. The three-ring tents 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894. Suits
with their great size have knocked were filed by Estes Fentress, acting
the aged patter down, common in the with C. w. Ewing, attorney for the
single rings in Tony Pastor's day, out city,and it looked as if the liquor men
of business. Nobody without a voice would have to pay up. But they
like a speaking trumpet can be heard didn’t, having secured a compromise,
nowadays in the great tent. 'I he — ------------
knockabout business has come up in The Osages
Abe Mulkey is after the sinners at consequence and the dude and Reuben I There are about 1,300 Indians in
Albany. Shackelford county. down meander, among the audience, the Usage tribe, and the government
Liberty Hill. Williamson county, representing eccentric spectatorsnot holds in trust for them the sum of $8,-
wants a state normal school. I belonging to the show. 500 per head. Nevertheless, they are
A prohibition election wil be M .keponwitcna. supported atthe public expenso, like
at McKinney, March 13. There is a symbolic significance in
Leonard, Fannin county, will vote the watch chain ornament formed of ।
on prohibition Maren 9. two boar’s tusks bound together in
Goliad had one foot and Houston cresent shape with a piece of gold or vt. recently of a Democrat, aged 86,
twenty inches of snow. silver. This or any other figure of who was buried in a coffin made by
There are, so far, four candidates two prongs, a horseshoe, for example, a Democrat,of pine grown on a Demo-
for mayor of Dallas. or a pair of open shears, is believed crat's land and sawed at a Demosrat's
Pittsburg has a tannery which is to keep off witches. I mill, and the undertakers and pall
At Graham, recently, while on trial are simply "guys.” The tents are
for seduction, Ed Roach, the defend- "tops” to the circus men. and they
ant. after argument began, stated are subdivided into the “bigtop,” the
to the court that he would marry the "animal top,” the "kid top,” the
girl. He procured a license and the “candy top,” and so on indefinitely,
judge married them and discharged The side show, where the Circassian
they accept nothing more modest than ।
a cabinet portfolio or an ambassador- '
ship?
Cigarette smoking is a growing
Jargon w hich is Unintellizible to All
( bearers were Democrats.
Land in Naw York City.
Land in New York city has beer
sold at a price equal to 9000,000
per acre. The highest in IAedon al
15,000,000 per acre. Mk .
marriage recently. There arrived
from Texarkana two young men and
a girl, the sister of one of the parties ]
by the name of Jordan. They were
looking for a man by the name of
Wilson and found him there. A mar-
riage license had been procured at
Waco and the ceremony was performed
by a justice.
At Orange, a few days since, James
Hardy, a ship carpenter, was work-
ing under the bow of a large barge in
Gillis’ yard, springing a 3}x6 inch
plank under the bow when the jack-
screw let the heavy plank fly back
striking him on the cheek with such
force as to knock him senseless, in-
flicting a very ugly and painful
wound.
Jordan Gray, aged about 90, and
his wife, colored, aged about 85,
burned to death in their home, the
other morning in the suburbs of Gal-
ton. They lived in a three-room
shanty, which is supposed to have
taken fire from the stove.
S. O. (Doc) Craig, aged about 37
years, was accidentally shot and in-
stantly killed at Bowie, Montague
county, the other morning by his
brother. John Craig, aged about 22
years.
At Wharton, the other night, Mr.
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